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+using IntegrationTests;
+using JasperFx;
+using JasperFx.Events;
+using JasperFx.Events.Projections;
+using Polecat;
+using PolecatTests.Distribution.TripDomain;
+using Shouldly;
+using Wolverine.Runtime.Agents;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace PolecatTests.Distribution;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// The Polecat half of the GH-4562 cover that <c>MartenTests.MultiTenancy.blue_green_version_bump_assignment</c>
+/// provides for Marten: a blue/green rollout placed through the real
+/// <see cref="EventSubscriptionAgentFamily"/> and <see cref="AssignmentGrid.DistributeByGroupAffinity(string, Func{Uri, string}, Func{Uri, bool})"/>,
+/// over agent URIs a real Polecat store advertises rather than hand-written ones.
+///
+/// <para>It is a structural twin, not a copy. The Marten version gets a group deep enough to split from
+/// several tenants sharing one shard database, which Polecat cannot express --
+/// <c>Polecat.Storage.SeparateDatabaseTenancy</c> offers only <c>AddTenant</c>, so Polecat multi-tenancy
+/// is one tenant per database. Here the depth comes from several PROJECTIONS on one database instead.
+/// The mechanism under test is unchanged: a partition holding more than one agent, of which a blue node
+/// runs some without declaring them.</para>
+///
+/// <para>Deliberately single-database. A multi-tenanted Polecat store reports
+/// <c>Cardinality = Single</c> with an empty <c>Databases</c> collection from <c>TryCreateUsage()</c>,
+/// even though <c>IEventStore.AllDatabases()</c> on the same store returns every tenant database
+/// (JasperFx/polecat#675). <c>EventStoreAgents.SupportedAgentsAsync</c> reads the usage descriptor, so
+/// every agent would collapse onto the main database and there would be nothing left to group. Using one
+/// database keeps this test about placement rather than about that gap; when #675 is fixed this is worth
+/// revisiting as the full multi-database twin of the Marten version.</para>
+/// </summary>
+public class blue_green_version_bump_assignment
+{
+    // The projection both fleets serve unchanged -- declared by every node, so it is its own partition
+    // and free to stay where it is running.
+    private const string Unchanged = "day";
+
+    // The projection being version-bumped: blue serves version 1, green version 2. Each version is a
+    // separate shard identity, and only the fleet running that build can BUILD its agent.
+    private const string Bumped = "trip";
+
+    // Registered on green only. This is the Polecat stand-in for the tenant provisioned after the blue
+    // nodes captured their capability snapshots: blue is happily RUNNING it and does not declare it.
+    private const string AfterBlueSnapshot = "distance";
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task the_bumped_version_is_not_dragged_onto_a_blue_node_by_a_grandfathered_agent()
+    {
+        var blueAgents = await AdvertisedAgentsAsync(BlueStore());
+        var greenAgents = await AdvertisedAgentsAsync(GreenStore());
+
+        // Guard the shape this test exists for. Without it, a change that stopped versioning shard names
+        // would silently make both fleets advertise one and the same set, every agent would be declared
+        // everywhere, and the whole file would go on passing while testing nothing.
+        var bumpedOnGreen = Only(greenAgents, Bumped);
+        bumpedOnGreen.ShouldNotBeEmpty("green must advertise the bumped projection");
+        bumpedOnGreen.ShouldAllBe(uri => !blueAgents.Contains(uri),
+            "the two fleets must advertise the bumped projection under DISJOINT identities, or there is no blue/green gap to test");
+
+        var grandfathered = Only(greenAgents, AfterBlueSnapshot).Single();
+        blueAgents.ShouldNotContain(grandfathered,
+            "the stand-in for a post-snapshot tenant must be absent from blue's capabilities");
+
+        var grid = new AssignmentGrid();
+        var blue = grid.WithNode(1, Guid.NewGuid()).HasCapabilities(blueAgents);
+        var green = grid.WithNode(2, Guid.NewGuid()).HasCapabilities(greenAgents);
+
+        // Blue runs everything it declares, PLUS the agent it does not declare. That last one is what
+        // used to pull blue into the candidate set for a partition it can only partly run.
+        blue.Running(blueAgents.Append(grandfathered).ToArray());
+
+        grid.WithAgents(blueAgents.Concat(greenAgents).Distinct().ToArray());
+
+        grid.DistributeByGroupAffinity("event-subscriptions", EventSubscriptionAgentFamily.DatabaseKeyOf);
+
+        foreach (var uri in bumpedOnGreen)
+        {
+            var host = grid.AgentFor(uri).AssignedNode;
+            host.ShouldNotBeNull($"{uri} was left unassigned, so nothing would build the new version");
+            host.ShouldBe(green,
+                $"{uri} may only run on the fleet that declares it -- BuildAgentAsync throws 'Unable to find a shard' on the other one");
+        }
+
+        foreach (var uri in Only(blueAgents, Bumped))
+        {
+            grid.AgentFor(uri).AssignedNode.ShouldBe(blue,
+                $"{uri} is the version the blue fleet serves and must stay there");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static List<Uri> Only(IEnumerable<Uri> agents, string projectionName) =>
+        agents.Where(uri => uri.Segments.Any(segment =>
+            segment.Trim('/').StartsWith(projectionName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))).ToList();
+
+    private static async Task<IReadOnlyList<Uri>> AdvertisedAgentsAsync(IDocumentStore store)
+    {
+        await using var family = new EventSubscriptionAgentFamily([(IEventStore)store], []);
+        return await family.SupportedAgentsAsync();
+    }
+
+    // The build deployed today.
+    private static IDocumentStore BlueStore() => StoreFor(1, withPostSnapshotProjection: false);
+
+    // The build rolling out: the bumped projection, and one registered since blue started.
+    private static IDocumentStore GreenStore() => StoreFor(2, withPostSnapshotProjection: true);
+
+    private static IDocumentStore StoreFor(uint tripVersion, bool withPostSnapshotProjection)
+    {
+        return DocumentStore.For(opts =>
+        {
+            opts.DatabaseSchemaName = "polecat_bluegreen";
+            opts.ConnectionString = Servers.SqlServerConnectionString;
+
+            // Nothing here writes or projects; the test only asks each store what it would advertise.
+            opts.AutoCreateSchemaObjects = AutoCreate.None;
+
+            opts.Projections.Add(new TripProjection { Version = tripVersion }, ProjectionLifecycle.Async);
+            opts.Projections.Add<DayProjection>(ProjectionLifecycle.Async);
+
+            if (withPostSnapshotProjection)
+            {
+                opts.Projections.Add<DistanceProjection>(ProjectionLifecycle.Async);
+            }
+        });
+    }
+}